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Blu-ray Outsells HD DVD Nearly 2-to-1 in US

Home Media Research reports that from January 1 through September 30, Blu-ray sold 2.6 million discs in the US, while only 1.4 million HD DVD discs were sold. Since it ended in September, the count doesn’t include Michael Bay’s reluctantly sold 190,000 Transformers HD DVDs, a figure which will probably continue to rise, adding to…

The NYT confirms the earlier rumor that the HD DVD camp paid $150 million in “Promotional consideration” to have Paramount and Dreamworks Animation go strictly HD DVD. [NYT – Thanks Dom!] https://gizmodo.com/hd-dvd-paid-150-million-to-studios-for-promotional-co-291491

HD DVD Paid $150 million to Studios for “Promotional Consideration”

Paramount and Dreamworks went HD DVD exclusive today. Then, a Hollywood news blog reported that the HD DVD camp paid Paramount $50 million and DreamWorks Animation $100 million for “promotional consideration.” We asked Paramount and the HD DVD camp about this, and received a quick albeit vague reply: “Whenever we conduct co-marketing, production deals or…

Paramount and DreamWorks Animation Go Exclusively HD DVD

Every time I feel ready to declare Blu-ray a winner by technical knock-out, HD DVD fights back—hard. Today Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation announced that it would be releasing movies exclusively on HD DVD, starting with Blades of Glory, Transformers and Shrek the Third. This is a pretty sizable deal, which includes movies from Paramount…

PMA 07: HP Announces DreamColor, An Open System for Standard Colors All Over the Universe

HP’s Executive VP of Imaging and Printing Vyomesh Joshi (pictured above) actually made a bit of news at PMA 07 in the midst of his flurry of desperate-sounding guff and cheerleading about getting people to print more pictures so the company could continue earning astronomical profits by price gouging the public with its worth-its-weight-in-gold printer…